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Valence, FR

Valence, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Livron-sur-Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

GPA is an European leader in automotive recycling with 24.000 vehicles valued and more than 100.000 used spare parts produced per year. After 2 years in the position of Sales & Marketing Director I take in charge M&A operations.

Guyancourt

SOGEFI Group is a tier one automotive supplier involved in Filtration, Suspensions and Air Cooling. IAM SOGEFI Filtration delivers 150 M€ with 90 persones in 12 countries (40 salesmen).Filtration IAM brands are Purflux, Fram, Tecnocar & Coopers-Fiaam.

Brussels Area, Belgium

. Managing Director First-Stop France in Interim, from September 2010 to July 2011.. Managing Director First-Stop France & Benelux, in charge of Equities, from July 2011 to January 2014.Duty: Takeover the company in a full crisis situation (5 M€ losses forecast in 2010) to breakeven (100 points of sales, 180 M€ turnover, 1.000 persones).Achievement.

Managing Director Europe, from July 2008 till July 2009.Roulunds Braking is a car Equipment company specialized in Brakes. Customers are car manufacturers (Volvo, Suzuki, Jaguar) and car equipment companies (Bosch, Delphi, Valeo).Duty: Breakeven after 2,4 M€ losses in 2008.. Management of European operations (150 persones on 3 industrial sites in France &.

CEO AD Rhône Alpes and Managing Director AD Drôme from April 2005 till July 2008.Duty: create AD Rhône-Alpes (Cofirhad) by merging 6 subsidiaries and develop the business.Achievement: Common ERP implementation and creation of a common Back Office.. Common Back Office covers accounting, cash, credit management, HR, reporting, invoicing control, purchasing.

Parts and Contracts Maintenance Manager, from June 2000 till March 2003.. Duty: secure parts business within 11 independant dealers, 10 subsidiaries, 47 agents and fleets.. Achievements: Parts turnover from 80 M€ in 2000 to 90 M€ in 2004.Launch of "Truck Shop"; an internal purchasing structure for non Volvo trucks (3 M€).Aftermarket Director, from March.

Dealer development Manager, from January 1996 till December 1996.. Duty: develop, animate the 600 garages member of Bosch Car Service networks with 5 persons.. Achievement: 40 new Bosch Car Service workshops. Conceive and implement promotional and traffic development operations.Sales Regional Director IAM, from December 1996 till January 1999. Duty.

Field Marketing Manager in 1988-89, Sales District Manager in 1990, Dealer Development in 1991.. Network development: audit and benchmatk of 33 dealers.. Business development: Turnover of my area increased by 12%, to 5 M€.. Sales team management: drive and coach 3 dealers and their 12 salesmen.Senior European Product Manager in European Strategy.